CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Venice bans kebab shops to ‘preserve decorum and traditions’ of city.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 2017 Venice banned new kebab shops and other fast-food restaurants from opening. Sebastiano Costalonga, the councillor responsible for commerce, said that the rules would help to discourage sellers of tourist tat who close their businesses every few years to avoid paying tax and send their earnings abroad.

Detailed explanation-3: -Noun. kebab (plural kebabs) (Britain) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

Detailed explanation-4: -The UK’s first kebab shop, Istanbul Restaurant in Soho, opened during the Second World War. But it was not until 1966 that the famous doner kebab-cooked on a vertical spit-first appeared with the opening of the Hodja Nasreddin Kebab House by Çetin Bukey and Kojay Hüseyin in North London’s Newington Green.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kebabs in the UK The first UK kebab shop is reported to have opened in London in 1940.